LINCLincoln Educational Services Corporation

$23.52+12% 1Y

$23.52

$17.8052 weeks$54.21

Is the price fair?

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A demanding price: priced for +21% a year vs +17% a year delivered, well above its own median P/E, and rich vs its sector.

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What the price assumes~+21% a year

Priced for ~21% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 17% a year, priced for acceleration.

Vs its own P/E range131% above its own medianderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 32.2 vs a 14.0 median over 28 quarters (+131% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)45.5×

Sector median 16.6× across 78 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)behind 72% of the market

FCF yieldbehind 89% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What LINC's price assumes

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation trades at 32.2× earnings against 18.1× for the median Education & Training Services name, more expensive than its own group.

32.2

Trailing P/E · Education & Training Services median 18.1 · 1.78× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 2.72
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 1.6%
Free cash flow yield · Education & Training Services median 9.7%
Growth the price implies: +21%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +21% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +70% a year over the last three.